Good writing

Grown-up news

TL;DR: the algorithms that underpin YouTube's revenue model incentivise the creation of clickbait content at massive scale, and while quality will suffer, that doesn't matter if you target it at very young children, because they can't tell unofficial content from official, or bad quality from good. So the exploitation of children has become accidentally inherent to YouTube's way of making money, and they're seemingly unable to do anything about it.

And like he says at the end, while the child aspect of this is awful, it's not the actual story.

The asides I’ve kept in parentheses throughout, if expanded upon, would allow one with minimal effort to rewrite everything I’ve said, with very little effort, to be not about child abuse, but about white nationalism, about violent religious ideologies, about fake news, about climate denialism, about 9/11 conspiracies.